“I have a hamster and I hate Windows Vista. If i sit in the back of the bus, why is my answering machine not giving me toast when I ask it for peanut butter?” Where, in all the realms of insanity, is the right answer for this question? I swear, I’ve had like four people [...]

So we’re pretty much a third of the way through National Novel Writing Month, and I’m at about a third of where I need to be. It’s annoying, but it happens. Writers have this issue – it amounts to the same thing retail workers call “Stockroom Syndrome” where you enter the stock room and completely [...]

I’ve entered the 2008 National Novel Writing Month contest! Yay me! Also, Lei is helping me with the writing, as my entry is The Dowager Shadow, which is the extension of the Maredran RP game. It starts on November 1st, so there’s still time to prepare. Whee!

Mireya was watching the night, arms wrapped around a narrow waist, curling into her flaring hips. The rough blanket around her shoulders scratching her skin, but it was nothing compared to the sting of the salt-waves on her face. The short delicate framed wraithlike figure stood at the front of the boat, lit by the [...]

Thanks to Slashdot [RTFA], I’ve just been introduced to one of the most ambitious projects I’ve ever come across. The Clock of the Long Now, also known as the Millenium Clock, will be a sempiternal machine constructed in Nevada; a clock that ticks once a year, bongs once a century, and whose cuckoo comes out [...]

So my computer has been on suicide watch for the last few days. I re-imaged it last week, reinstalled everything and made contiguous backups. It all seemed to work fine – during the backup the dvd drive stopped burning, but after the re-image, it appeared to work ok. And then poor lappy got dumped off [...]

This is the first in a set of asides written for the sake of adding necessary characters into the plotline of the Great Fire. This particular scene occurs during the arrival of the first Intake played on maredran_rp, involving the Blackcards and Redcards. This one involves the introduction of characters originally seen in the aragos_roleplay [...]